NEW DELHI: A 24-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death while his friend was injured by two youths over personal enmity in east Delhi's Mandawali, police said on Monday.
The accused identified as Ansh and Punit, both aged 19, have been arrested while two juveniles were apprehended, they said.
According to police, on Saturday night, when Abhishek Gupta (24) and his friend Anurag Shukla (22) reached the Ganesh Nagar complex, a group of people accosted them and threatened Gupta.
The argument escalated and they stabbed Gupta. When Shukla tried to intervene, he was also stabbed twice, they said.
The victims were rushed to a nearby hospital. Gupta was referred to another hospital where he succumbed to injuries later, a senior police officer said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) Amrutha Guguloth said Ansh and Punit were nabbed from near a railway line in Ganesh Nagar. On their instance, two juveniles involved in the incident were apprehended.
Two knives and clothes worn by the accused during the crime were recovered, she said.
Ansh and Punit, who lived in the same neighbourhood as Gupta, had frequent tussles with him over supremacy in the area and a heated argument over the same triggered Saturday's incident, the police said.
Based on Shukla's statement, a case was registered under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, they said.
(With PTI inputs)
